Nuclear war games: No survivors?

activity of daily living and its associated factors in war survivors with no visual acuity

normal 0 false false false microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: war is a known cause of tremendous physical injuries to different body organs, and eyes are not exceptions. war-related no visual acuity (nva) affects both the victim and the family. activity of daily living (adl) can display personal life independency and is considered as a morbidity index. this study was designed to investigate...

Activity of daily living and its associated factors in war survivors with no visual acuity

BACKGROUND War is a known cause of tremendous physical injuries to different body organs, and eyes are not exceptions. War-related no visual acuity (NVA) affects both the victim and the family. Activity of daily living (ADL) can display personal life independency and is considered as a morbidity index. This study was designed to investigate the ADL profile of war survivors with NVA. METHODS T...

Anthracycline war: no victor yet.

T hirty years ago, the introduction of anthracyclines, such as doxorubicin and epirubicin, gave oncologists a more effective cytotoxic agent and commenced the drugs ' long reign as the foundation of early breast cancer therapy. But some experts now argue that with the advent of newer drugs — trastuzumab (Herceptin) and the taxanes, such as pacli-taxel (Taxol) and docetaxel (Taxotere) — there is...

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

groups made valuable contributions to elaborating the consequences of nuclear warfare.1 Paul Crutzen and John Birks proposed that massive fires and smoke emissions in the lower atmosphere after a global nuclear exchange would create severe short-term environmental aftereffects. Extending their work, two of us (Toon and Turco) and colleagues discovered “nuclear winter,” which posited that worldw...

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War